The Smiling Rebel a novel based on the life of Belle Boyd: Signed, inscribed copy

Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Octavo. 314 pages, [2]. Gray cloth hardcover with color illustrated, non price clipped, dust jacket. Light toning and edge wear to the jacket. Browning to the front and rear end papers. Two Inscriptions written on the right front flyleaf. Gift inscription written top of the right front flyleaf - "Christmas 1955 from The Steves". The second inscription is by the author - "For Stephens Mitchell the brother of distinguished Margaret Mitchell - Best wishes - Harnett T. Kane." Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephens Mitchell (1896-1983) was the son of Eugene Muse Mitchell and Isabel "Maybelle" (Stephens) Mitchell. He was born 1896 in Atlanta. His sister was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. Stephens Mitchell attended the University of Georgia and was a prominent Atlanta attorney, historian, and devout Catholic. He also edited the Atlanta Historical Bulletin. After John Marsh, husband of Margaret, died in 1952 Stephens became the executor of Margaret Mitchell's estate. Stephens Mitchell died in 1983 and the estate was passed on to his two sons Eugene Muse Mitchell II and Joseph Reynolds Mitchell.